Milestones, Feb. 6, 1956

Born. To Max Adenauer, 45, son of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and Gisela Klein Adenauer: the Chancellor's 16th grandchild; in Cologne, West Germany. Name: Ursula.

Died. Ivor Erskine St. Clair Ramsay, 53, dean and senior chaplain of King's College, Cambridge; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed," in a plunge from the roof of the chapel* in Cambridge, England.

Died. Sir Alexander Korda, 62, British cinemogul (Rembrandt, The Red Shoes); of a heart attack; in London. Hungarian-born Korda made his first films in a shed on the outskirts of Budapest...

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